Timeline of MAIN's Major Accomplishments (1996-2012)

1996: MAIN brings Internet access with a
local phone call to 12 mountain counties, including public
Internet access at more than 30 public libraries and community
centers. Expands to 14 counties in 1999.

1996-2000: MAIN
leads effort to create the first public, education, and
government (PEG) access TV channels in Western North
Carolina.

2008: MAIN represents rural
communities in unanimous vote at the FCC to approve unlicensed
use of the “TV white spaces” (TVWS) for expanded wireless
broadband service in rural and other underserved areas.

2010: MAIN helps pass the
Local Community Radio Act to remove restrictions on low-power
FM radio stations, paving the way for a much-improved broadcast
signal for MAIN-FM.